Traditional Families Key to Reducing Child Poverty

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A new study by the Heritage Foundation reveals that U.S. children in married-parent families are more than 80 percent less likely to live in poverty than kids in single-parent homes. The Heritage study finds that nearly three out of four poor families in America are headed by a single parent — usually a mother — but when a child's father is married to his mother, and is a presence in the home, the poverty level tends to plummet.
“Policymakers on the state and national levels recognize that education reduces poverty,” said the study's author, Robert Rector, who serves as senior research fellow in domestic policy at Heritage. “But they're largely unaware that marriage is an equally strong anti-poverty weapon.”
The study notes that in Florida, as just one example, white families headed by single parents are five times more likely to live in poverty than those headed by married couples. And in Illinois, the poverty rate for a single mother with only a high school education stands at nearly 40 percent, compared with just eight percent for a similarly educated married couple.
Rector writes that “being married has the same effect in reducing poverty that adding five to six years to a parent's level of education has.”
The study, entitled Marriage: America's Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty, notes that in 2010 nearly 60 percent of all births in the U.S. were to single mothers. While many people may think that the majority of out-of-wedlock births happen to teenage mothers, the truth is that 75 percent of such births were to women between the ages of 19 and 29. “The decline in marriage and growth in out-of-wedlock births is not a teenage issue,” writes Rector.

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Thank you for this fine commentary. I especially appreciate your points about marriage not being encouraged by enough churches (this should really start at home with parents teaching their children) and that avoidance of marriage is an act of hard heartedness. When people remain single for long periods of time, they generally become quite self-centered and vulnerable to fornication and other "secret" sexual sins. Most churches are completely silent on this issue. I pray that Berean is doing its part and that my own church will, also.

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Pastor Sean Harris has been the Senior Pastor for Berean Baptist Church and Academy in Fayetteville, NC since 2006. He served as a member, lay teacher and deacon at Berean from 1987 until he became the Senior Pastor. As the Senior Pastor, he oversees Berean’s ministry to over...

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